UAN Registration, EPF Universal Account Number

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The UAN or the Universal Account Number is issued by the Ministry of Labor and Employment, Government of India, it is a 12-digit unique number allotted to each member of Employee Provident Fund that is provided by Employee Provident Fund Organisation which helps the employee to control all his EPF accounts by reducing the involvement of employer who provides employment, Universal Account Number is a vast subject so here i am telling some of the important things to be known to every investor.

Conditions probed to develop UAN:

Every employee is provided with a provident fund account which is operated by the employee till 2004, the employee should change his/her provident number as soon as the job is changed and the balance amount should be transferred to the new provident number this in turn lead to multiple accounts that lead to chaos and become a major area of concern as a majority of grievances of employees are related to transfer of funds from one account number to another to overcome the problem, Employee fund organisation have introduced universal account number which is unique to all the employees who are having provident fund account, that is no two employees have same UAN.

Prior to the introduction of UAN, there is a huge problem of funds transferring from one account to another once the new account is created as the employee changed their jobs, now the employee should submit the UAN number and registration details to the employer after the change of job, once the new employer check and verify these details, the money from the older account will get transferred to the new account as quick as possible, for employees who had opened their accounts before the allotment of UAN, they should apply for fund transfer either in digital or physical format.

Cessation of Employee involvement in withdrawals

Before the introduction of UAN for every fund transfer employee should sign any request for EPF withdrawal of funds, presently the amount lying in the EPF account will directly transfer to the new account once the employer verifies know your customer norms details.

SMS Alert

Monthly transfers and withdrawals to an EPF account is alerted by SMS that was sent both to the employee and employer, the SMS was received from the Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), candidates can even check their total balance by downloading the EPF passbook, this facility is not available to employees who are exempted by certain establishments at present.

Employee Pension Scheme

As there is build-up of chaos due to frequent transfer of fund from one account to another, members of EPFO developed an easier process for money withdrawal, and introduced a new scheme called Employee Pension Scheme, this affects the pension that you ultimately receive after retirement, with UAN (Universal Account Number), automatic money transfer will be done under EPS scheme through employee provident fund account, transferring the money instead of withdrawing will lead to better results in pension received by the employers.

Member ID Differ From UAN Number

Every employee is provided with single UAN or Universal Account which is unique to all, employees member ID’s are maintained, an employee can have multiple savings accounts which are linked to Permanent Account Number or PAN, once the new account is created as the employee changed their jobs, now the employee should submit the UAN number and registration details to the employer after the change of job, the new member ID is linked to UAN.
EPFO was requested to generate the UAN number for its employee along with Member ID, If the employee is not provided with UAN number the reason might be the employees first job or he was working before Jan 2014 when UAN number process started, second case is if an employee is provided with an UAN number the employer by filling Form 11 will submit the request to EPFO to generate new Member ID for the employee and link it to the UAN number of the employee.

UAN number allotment

Universal account number or UAN is a 12-digit unique number which has been allotted to each Provident fund member by the EPFO by converting the old accounts of employees to new account through electronically generated challan-cum-return in 2014, contributed by EPFO, The details of UAN allotted to each PF member have been provided to the employer where the details of the UAN are to be provided to the employee concerned, an interface is provided by EPFO to verify the allotment of UAN.

Registration of UAN

The employee who have received UAN from employer, they should visit the official website of Employee provident fund organisation, where the candidate should click on the activate UAN link enter the necessary details and continue the further process click on get authorization PIN

Requirements to fill form

Identity to be submitted it can be UAN, Member Id, Aadhaar PAN

Name

Date of Birth

Mobile Number

Email Id

After submission of captcha an authorization pin is generated to the mobile number, after entering it click on submit button, now the webpage will show verification of member’s credentials, the portal to create the password for login will be generated user Name displayed on screen will always be employees UAN, thus registration process is completed.

Logging to UAN

As the member completes UAN based registration, employer can any time login to the portal by using his username and password that was already created, after logging into the official website of EPFO, employee new UAN unified portal for employees, the following are the documents that are to be provided Employee should download Passbook or UAN Card, employee should list Previous Member ID or View Linking Status, employee should file Transfer Claim and view Transfer Claim Status that was generated by the System, through this portal employee can edit mobile number, email ID, personal details, Update KYC Information, Change Password.

how to Downoad EPF Passbook

Employee can download EPF passbook is available at official website, where he should click on Our Services an online webpage will open and he should go through For Employees option present in webpage and to download EPF passbook by clicking or login to Member Passbook by submitting 12- digit UAN number and password.

UAN (Universal Account Number) Card

UAN Card provides information about UAN account number and other personal details, which includes UAN, employee Name, Father’s or Husband’s Name, Member-ID provided by EPFO, Photo and KYC in the front page it is marked no beside KYC submission, means the KYC is not uploaded by the employee, where the back side of card displays digits of Member ID.